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ATA  MEETING  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Columbia 
/\  University,  held  on  December  5,  1910,  announcement 
was  made  of  the  gift  to  the  University  by  Mr.  Edward 
D.  Adams,  then  President  of  the  Germanistic  Society  of  America, 
of  a  DeutscJies  Haus.  In  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  gift, 
the  private  residence  at  419  West  117th  Street,  within  a  stone's 
throw  of  the  Campus,  was  purchased  by  the  Uni- 


versity in  the  spring  of  1911,  and  during  the  summer    ^Intt^ODUCtOt^'P 

many  alterations  were  made  in  the  house  in  order  to    — - — 

adapt  it  more  directly  to  the  purposes  for  which  it  was  estab- 
lished. Professor  Kudolf  Tombo,  Jr.,  Associate  Professor  of 
the  Germanic  Languages  and  Literatures  of  Columbia  University 
and  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Germanistic  Society  of 
America,  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  Raus  as  Director,  and 
with  the  aid  of  many  generous  contributions  organized  a  library 
of  contemporary  German  literature,  which  was  opened  in 
September,  1911.  At  the  same  time  a  bureau  of  academic 
information  was  established,  which  cooperates  with  a  similar 
one  in  the  University  of  Berlin.  The  Haus  also  contains  private 
apartments  for  the  Kaiser- Wilhelm  Professor  and  the  foreign 
guests  of  the  Germanistic  Society,  and  serves  as  the  head- 
quarters of  that  organization.  Efforts  are  at  present  being 
made  to  raise  an  endowment  fund  of  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  full  amount  may  be  donated  in 
the  near  future. 

During  the  short  period  of  its  existence  the  Haus  has  done 
much  to  emphasize  and  enhance  the  value  of  the  cordial  intel- 
lectual relations  between  Germany  and  the  United  States.  An 
account  of  its  various  activities  during  the  academic  year 
1911-12  follows: 

The  Haus  has  been  most  fortunate  in  the  matter  of  gifts. 
In  addition  to  the  thirty  thousand  dollars  presented  by 
Mr.  Edward  D.  Adams  for  the  purchase  and  equipment  of  the 
Haus,  ten  thousand  dollars  were  presented  by  Mr.  George  Ehret, 


dEfiftjs 


two  thousand  dollars  of  which  are  to  be  devoted  annually  for 
five  years  to  maintenance.  Mr.  Adolphus  Busch  of  St.  Louis 
has  given  ten  thousand  dollars  for  the  endowment  fund,  and 
a  conditional  offer  to  contribute  the  last  ten  thousand  dollars 
of  the  required  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  has  been  made. 
Furthermore,  eleven  hundred  and  ninety-five  dollars  were  con- 
tributed by  Messrs.  Fritz  Achelis,  Herman  Behr,  A.  Filers, 
A.  B.  Hepburn,  Eudolph  Keppler,  Willy  Meyer,  Herman  Kidder, 
Josef  Schick,  Jacob  Schiff,  Carl  E.  Stiefel,  Ludwig  Vogelstein, 
Felix  Warburg,  and  Paul  Warburg,  for  the  purpose  of  pur- 
chasing books  for  the  library  of  contemporary  literature  and 
supplying  the  necessary  magazines  and  newspapers. 

Mr.  Hugo  Eeisinger  presented  an  oil  painting  of  Christ 
by  Arthur  Kampf,  former  president  of  the  Berlin  Academy, 
and  a  landscape  by  Ernest  Lawson;  Mr.  Herman  Bidder,  a 
portrait  of  the  German  Emperor  by  Mliller-Ury;  Euth  Payne 
Burgess,  an  oil  portrait  of  the  late  Ministerialdirektor  Friedrich 
Theodor  Althoft',  painted  by  herself;  Mr.  Hermann  Struck, 
an  etching  of  Gerhart  Hauptmann;  The  Gesellig-Wissen- 
schaftlicher  Verein,  an  oil  portrait  of  Dr.  Abraham  Jacobi; 
Mr.  Edward  D.  Adams,  a  German  and  an  American  flag;  Mr. 
Pierpont  Adams,  pictures  of  the  Great  Elector  and  of  Frederick 
the  Great ;  Mrs.  George  A.  Victor,  a  bronze  replica  of  Schliiter's 
equestrian  statue  of  the  Great  Elector  in  Berlin,  a  bronze  bust 
of  Phcebus  Apollo  with  pedestal,  and  two  Kaulbach  prints; 
Mrs.  Martin  Beckhard,  a  marble  pedestal;  The  Misses  Stett- 
heimer,  a  statue  of  Goethe  and  one  of  Schiller.  Photographs 
and  i:)ictures  were  received  from  Professor  and  Mrs.  Camillo 
von  Klenze,  Mr.  Kurt  J.  Eahlson,  Professor  Josef  Schick,  The 
Misses  Schurz,  Dr.  Eeinliard  Thom,  Mr.  Oswald  G.  Villard,  and 
various  German  and  American  universities.  Books  and  maga- 
zines were  presented  by  the  following :  Mr.  Edward  D.  Adams, 
Mr.  Martin  Birnbaum,  Mr.  Arthur  von  Briesen,  Dr.  J.  W. 
Emmert,  Mr.  C.  von  Helmolt,  Mr.  F.  W.  Lafrentz,  Mr.  Kurt  J. 
Eahlson,  Mr.  Hugo  Eeisinger,  Mr.  Herman  Bidder,  Mr.  Jacob 
Schiff",  The  Misses  Schurz,  Mr.  Louis  Ullstein,  Mr.  Louis  Vogel- 
stein, and  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Leonard  Weber ;  also  by  the  following 
publishing  houses:  American  Book  Company,  Columbia  Uni- 
versity Press,  Ginn  &  Co.,  D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.,  Henry  Holt  &  Co., 
Lemcke  &  Buechner,  Oxford  University  Press,  Silver,  Burdett 

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&  Co.,  J.  G.  Cotta'sche  Buchhandlimg  Xachfolger,  Egon 
Fleischel  &  Co.,  Ullstein  Yerlag,  Ernst  Wiegandt,  Kolnische 
Zeitung,  Leipziger  ^N^eueste  Xachrichten,  Miinclmer  Keueste 
IJJ^acliricliteii,  and  August  Scherl. 

A  circular  letter  addressed  to  prominent  German  men  of 
letters  containing  a  request  for  biographical  material  and  signed 
photographs,  met  with  the  following  favorable  responses :  Felix 
Dahn  (sent  by  Mrs.   Dahn),  Ernst,  Ertl,  Eulenberg,   Ewers 
Falke,   Finckh,    Frenssen,   Fulda,    Greinz,   Carl    Hauptmann 
Hawel,  Heer,  Hegeler,   Herzog,  Heyse,  Jensen  (sent  by  Mrs 
Jensen),  Kroger,  Krilger,  Thomas   Mann,  Presber,  Eosegger 
Schlaf,  Sohle,  Voss,  Wilbrandt  (sent  by  his  son),  and  Zahn 
The  portraits,  a  number  of  which  contain  interesting  dedica 
tions,   have  been   suitably  framed  and  now  adorn  the  walls 
of  the   library.     Photographs   have   also  been   secured  from 
Count  Johann  von  Bernstorff,  Mr.  Edward  D.  Adams,  President 
Nicholas  Murray  Butler  and  Professor  John  W.  Burgess   of 
Columbia   University,  President   Arthur   T.  Hadley  of  Yale, 
Professor   Eugen   Kiihnemann  of   the  University  of   Breslau, 
Professor  Karl  Lamprecht  of  the  University  of  Leipzig,  Ernst 
von  Possart,  President  Benjamin  Ide  Wheeler  of  the  University 
of  California,  and  the   Honorable  Andrew  D.  White,  former 
ambassador  to  Germany. 

Through  the  generosity  of  Mr.  Edward  D.  Adams  the 
library  has  come  into  the  possession  of  a  beautiful  bookplate, 
and  an  album  has  been  presented  to  the  Haus  to  contain  the 
photographs  of  the  Kaiser- Wilhelm  professors. 

The  Haus  has  also  received  a  gift  of  a  copy  of  an  extra  of 
the  Hamburger  Fremdeiiblatt,  announcing  the  establishment  of 
peace  at  the  close  of  the  Franco-German  War. 

It  would  be  manifestly  impracticable  to  attempt  in  the 
Deutsclies  Haus  to  install  a  collection  of  books  and  magazines 
covering  the  entire  field  of  German  culture,  from  the 


earliest  times  to  the  present  day — for  two  reasons:     'SLht  JLtbtEW 

in  the  first  place,  the  space  would  prove  inadequate,     

and  secondly,  it  would  result  in  much  duplication  of  material : 
the  Columbia  University  library  possesses  over  five  thousand 
volumes  on  German  history,  as  does  the  Xew  York  Public 
Library,  while  in  the  field   of   German  literature  the  former 

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possesses  11,583  volumes  and  tlie  latter  4,840,  and  in  addition 
there  are  10,300  volumes  in  the  Ottendorfer  (German)  collection 
at  New  York  University.  The  library  of  the  Hans,  therefore,  is 
confined  to  material  dealing  with  current  literature,  the  period 
covered  beginning  approximately  with  the  restoration  of  the 
Empire  in  1871. 

Inasmuch  as  a  Bureau  of  German- American  Eesearch  exists 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  no  attempt  is  made  to 
emphasize  this  special  feature  here  at  the  expense  of  our  main 
interest,  although  the  standard  works  dealing  with  the  German 
element  in  the  United  States  are  of  course  available.  To 
attempt  to  duplicate  in  any  way  the  work  that  is  being  done 
by  the  Germanic  Museum  at  Harvard  University  would  also 
have  been  unwise  and  unnecessary.  The  object  of  all  these 
undertakings  should  be  effective  cooperation,  not  duplication 
in  the  same  field. 

The  collection  consists  of  almost  fifteen  hundred  volumes, 
and  is  being  rapidly  augmented.  Most  of  the  funds  for  the 
purchase  of  these  books  have  been  furnished  by  the  group  of 
gentlemen  mentioned  in  the  preceding  section.  Among  the 
interesting  volumes  in  the  possession  of  the  Ham  may  be  men- 
tioned Gerhart  Hauptmann's  "  Promethidenloos,"  the  first 
editions  of  his  "  Yor  Sonnenaufgang,"  ''  Elga,"  ^'  Kaiser  Karls 
Geisel,"  ''De  Waber"  (dialect  edition),  ''Hannele"  (illustrated 
edition),  a  copy  of  "  Moderne  Dichter-Charaktere  "  (1885),  etc. 
In  addition  to  the  works  from  the  field  of  German  literature, 
there  are  included  (in  German  translations)  works  by  various 
non-German  authors  like  Dumas,  Maupassant,  Zola,  Maeterlinck, 
Ibsen,  Bjornson,  Strindberg,  Tolstoy,  Dostoyevsky,  Turgenieff, 
Walt  Whitman,  Oscar  Wilde,  and  others  who  have  influenced 
contemporary  German  writers,  and  there  are  also  to  be  found 
on  the  shelves  a  limited  number  of  works  on  contemporary 
German  art,  music,  philosophy,  history,  etc.,  as  weU  as  gram, 
mars,  dictionaries,  and  an  encyclopedia. 

The  following  magazines  and  newspapers  are  kept  on  file 
in  the  library,  a  number  of  these  being  supplied  by  the  pub- 
lishers: Akademische  Mitteilungen,  College  World,  Columbia 
University  Quarterly,  Educational  Revietv,  Harvard  Graduates 
Magazine,  Hochschul  Nachrivhten^  Das  Humanistische  QymnasiuMy 
Intercollegiate,  Internationale  Monatssclirift,  MinistermlhlaU  fur 

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Medizinalangelegenheiten,  Teachers  College  Record^  Zentralhlatt 
fur  die  Gesamte  Unterrichtsverivaltung  in  PreusseUy  Zeitschrift  fur 
Hochschulpddagogik,  The  Bookman^  Buhne  und  Welt,  Current 
Literature,  Daheim,  Deutsche  Rundschau,  Deutsches  Schrifttum, 
Das  Echo,  EcTcart,  Fliegende  Blatter,  Die  Gartenlaube,  Grenz- 
boten,  Jugend,  Die  Kunst,  Kunst  und  Kunstler,  Kunst  fur  Alle, 
Kunstivart,  Leipziger  Illustrierte  Zeitung,  Das  Literarische  Echo, 
Der  MerJcer,  Die  Neue  Rundschau,  Nord  und  Sild,  Die  Schone 
Literatur,  Yelhagen  und  Klasings  Monatshefte,  Westermanns  Mo- 
natshefte,  Die  Woche,  Berliner  LoMlanzeiger,  Frankfurter  Zeitung, 
Kolnische  Zeitung,  Leipziger  Neueste  Nachrichten,  Munchner  Neueste 
Nachrichten,  Neiv- Yorker  Staats  Zeitung,  and  Vossische  Zeitung. 

Mention  of  the  reference  library  of  the  Bureau  of  Academic 
Information  will  be  made  in  a  later  paragraph. 

It  is  the  object  of  the  Director  not  only  to  collect  the  most 
important  books  in  the  field  of  contemporary  German  literature 
and  to  keep  on  file  a  number  of  German  magazines  and  news- 
papers, but  also  to  bring  together  as  much  fugitive  material  as 
possible— for  example,  valuable  magazine  articles  and  news- 
paper clippings  concerning  prominent  men  of  letters  are  being 
collected  and  classified,  so  that  an  American  critic  or  student 
who  wishes  to  find  out  something  about  a  living  German  writer 
has  access  to  material  that  is  not  available  at  any  other  library 
or  university.  In  other  words,  the  library  of  the  Raus  is  a 
repository  for  material  of  immediate  interest,  and  it  serves  as  a 
valuable  adjunct  to  the  work  conducted  by  students  in  the  field 
of  contemporary  German  literature  at  Columbia  University.  A 
large  number  of  clippings  have  been  collected,  filed,  and  cata- 
logued, and  have  proved  of  great  service  to  students  of  modern 
Germany,  not  only  at  Columbia  University  but  elsewhere. 

The  library  catalogue  is  an  analytical  one,  containing  under 
any  given  author  not  only  a  list  of  the  works  by  and  about  him 
to  be  found  in  the  library,  but  also  a  card  for  each  important 
reference  in  any  volume  located  on  our  shelves.  A  card  for 
each  of  our  books  is  also  filed  in  the  card  catalogue  of  the  gen- 
eral University  library. 

Eeaders'  cards  for  the  use  of  the  library  are  issued  not  only 
to  students  in  the  graduate  courses  at  Columbia  University,  but 
also  to  all  teachers  of  German  in  the  universities,  colleges,  and 

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secondary  schools,  both  public  and  private,  in  and  near  New 
York,  as  well  as  to  all  persons  directly  interested  in  contem- 
porary German  literature. 

The  Bureau  of  Academic  Information,  where  students  may 
obtain  all  possible  information  regarding  educational  insti- 
tutions in  Germany  and  the  United  States,  was  organized  when 
the  Haus  was  first  established.     There  have  been 


TBUtC^U  of  numerous  written  requests  for  information,  largely 

car553li>nttV  ^^  response  to  a  circular  letter  sent  out  to  the  deans 

^  q£  ^jjg  professional  and  non-professional  graduate 

jjtTfOttttBtiOtT     schools  of  the  leading  American  universities  and  to 
'  a  similar  letter  addressed  to  the  rectors  of  the  Ger- 

man, Austrian  and  Swiss  universities.  In  addition  numerous 
inquirers  have  presented  themselves  in  person  at  the  Haus,  and 
furthermore  the  Director  serves  in  the  caiDacity  of  advisor  to 
the  Kaiser- Wilhelm  Professor.  Advantage  was  taken  of  the 
presence  in  April  of  Professor  Wilhelm  Paszkowski,  Director 
of  the  Akademische  Auskunftsstelle  at  the  University  of 
Berlin,  to  refer  directly  to  him  several  Americans  who  contem- 
plated foreign  study.  A  number  of  interviews  of  this  nature 
were  arranged,  greatly  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  students 
involved. 

The  following  items  will  convey  some  idea  of  the  nature  of 
the  miscellaneous  inquiries  received :  Information  regarding  the 
work  in  journalism  conducted  at  German  universities ;  lists  of 
persons  in  New  York  and  vicinity  interested  in  German  life  and 
letters;  statistics  about  students  of  medicine  in  Germany, 
about  the  number  of  women  at  German  universities,  about  the 
geographical  distribution  of  the  student  body  of  American 
universities;  German  academic  costume;  bibliographical  material 
about  contemporary  German  authors ;  cost  of  living  in  various 
German  university  towns,  etc.,  etc.  Efforts  were  also  made  to 
interest  American  university  circles  in  the  activities  of  the 
Gesellschaft  fur  Hochschul-PddagogiTc. 

In  connection  with  the  Bureau  of  Academic  Information, 
there  is  also  maintained  a  reference  library,  now  numbering 
over  six  hundred  volumes  dealing  with  higher  education  in 
Germany  and  the  United  States.  Announcements  and  other 
publications  of  the  German  and  leading  American  universities 
and  technical  schools  are  also  kept  on  file  for  reference. 

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Portrait  of  Emperor  William  II. 

By    MiJLLER-URY 

Presented  by  Herman  Ridder 


Office  of  the  Director 


A  Corner  of  the  Library 


Bureau  of  Academic  Information 


Periodical  and  Newspaper  Room 


Portrait  of  Ministerialdirektor  Friedrich  Theodor  Althofk 

1839-1908 
By  Ruth  Payne  Burgess 

Presented  by  the  Artist 


A  considerable  number  of  catalogues  and  other  printed 
material  published  by  various  American  institutions  were 
secured  for  the  new  Bureau  of  Academic  Information  established 
at  the  University  of  Leipzig  in  1911.  On  May  31  and 
June  1,  1912,  the  Director  attended  a  convention  in  Berlin  of 
representatives  of  similar  bureaus  located  at  Berlin,  Leipzig, 
Vienna  and  Paris,  as  well  as  of  representatives  of  the  Amerika 
Institut  and  the  Bureau  of  German  Libraries,  at  which  the 
various  activities  of  these  bureaus  were  discussed  and  arrange- 
ments made  for  more  thorough  cooperation  between  the  different 
countries  in  the  field  of  academic  information. 

The  Beutsches  Haus,  while  anxious  to  be  of  assistance  to 
Germans  in  search  of  employment,  can  not,  of  course,  serve  as 
an  employment  agency.    We  h  ave  received 


a  multitude  of  requests  to  supply  posi-     9ipp0lUtntCtTt  TSUttdU 

tions  of  various  kinds,  and  we  have  been    

of  some  service  in  a  limited  way  in  a  special  field,  that  is,  we 
have  secured  several  teaching  (Kormal  College,  Wesleyan 
University,  Yale  University)  and  tutoring  positions,  and  have 
provided  opportunities  for  translating  and  lecturing.  We  have 
arranged  to  cooperate  hereafter  along  these  lines  with  the 
Appointment  Committee  of  Columbia  University  and  shall 
endeavor  to  keep  constantly  in  touch  with  institutions  of 
learning  by  means  of  circular  letters  of  inquiry. 

In  addition  to  the  lectures  arranged  annually  by  the  Ger- 
manistic  Society  of  America,  arrangements  were  made  to  have 
the  Kaiser-Wilhelm  Professor  deliver  a  series  of 


lectures  in  the  German  language  at  Columbia    IBUbllC  HtCtUt^^jS 

University  on  Wednesday  evenings  in  November    

and  December.  It  is  the  intention  to  have  such  a  series  deliv- 
ered annually.  Last  season's  lectures  were  delivered  by  Josef 
Schick,  Ph.D.,  professor  of  English  philology  in  the  University 
of  Munich,  Kaiser-Wilhelm  Professor  1911-12,  and  they  attracted 
large  and  appreciative  audiences.  Professor  Schick  spoke  on 
"  Shaksperes  Tragodien,''  discussing  the  following  subjects : 
1911 

IS'ovember    8 — Titus  Andronicus  und  Borneo  und  Julie 

November  15 — Die  Bonner- Tragodien 
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November  22 — Hamlet^  I 

November  29 — Hamlet^  II 

December    6 — Othello  und  Konig  Lear 

December  13 — Macbeth 
Beginning  November  13,  1912,  Felix  Krueger,  Ph.D.,  pro- 
fessor of  philosophy  and  psychology  in  the  University  of  Halle, 
Kaiser- Wilhelm  Professor  1912-13,  will  deliver  a  series  of  lec- 
tures on  "  Die  Frau  im  Leben  der  Naturvolker." 

Eloquent  testimony  of  the  interest  taken  in  the  Beutsches 
Haus,  not  only  in  the  United  States  but  abroad,  is  furnished 
by  the  entries  in  the  visitors'  register.     In   addition  to 


l^iSiitOt^)^     Professor    Josef    Schick    of    the  University  of   Munich, 

Professor    Wilhelm    Paszkowski    of    the    University    of 

Berlin,  Professor  Felix  Krueger  of  the  University  of  Halle,  and 
Professor  Camillo  von  Klenze  of  Brown  University,  all  of  whom 
resided  in  the  Hans  for  a  considerable  period,  we  have  welcomed 
a  host  of  visitors  from  all  sections  of  Germany,  as  well  as  from 
Australia,  Belgium,  England,  France  and  the  Scandinavian 
countries,  among  whom  the  following  may  be  mentioned:  Count 
Johann  von  Bernstorff,  Imperial  German  Ambassador.  From 
Berlin — Dr.  F.  S.  Archenhold,  Treptow  Observatory ;  Dr.  Wil- 
helm Franke,  Prussian  exchange  teacher ;  Lieut.  Hans  Gericke, 
aeronaut;  Dr.  Johannes  Kopke,  Prussian  exchange  teacher; 
Paul  Schwenke,  Director  of  the  Eoyal  Library;  Hermann 
Struck ;  Sanitatsrat  Dr.  Struh ;  Dr.  Reinhard  Thom,  Prussian 
exchange  teacher;  Louis  Ullstein,  publisher.  From  Munich — 
Count  von  Podewils-Durniz;  Oberburgermeister  Dr. von  Borscht; 
Dr.  Oskar  von  Miller;  Professor  Dr.  Walther  von  Dyck;  Dr. 
Franz  Fuchs ;  Phil.  Gelius ;  Diplom.  Ing.  Fr.  Orth ;  Professor 
Erich  von  Drygalski ;  Major  z.  D.  Wilhelm  Steinitzer.  Pro- 
fessor Eugen  Klihnemann  of  the  University  of  Breslau;  Profes- 
sor Paul  Hensel  of  the  University  of  Erlangen;  Gymnasial- 
direktor  Meese  of  Essen;  Professor  Otfried  Nippold  of  Frankfurt 
a/M. ;  Dr.  Gunther  Jacoby  of  the  University  of  Greif  swald ; 
Professor  Dr.  B.  Pfeif er  of  the  University  of  Halle ;  Dr.  Alfred 
Harnack  of  Leipzig ;  Dr.  Friedrich  Schonemann  of  Marburg ; 
Rudolf  Herzog  of  Rheinbreitbach  ;  Dr.  K.  Thurg  of  Wiesbaden ; 
Ludwig  Freiherr  von  Heyl  zu  Herrnsheim  of  Worms;  Emil 
Fuchs  of  London;  Baron  d'Estournelles  de  Constant  and  Vidal 

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de  la  Blache  of  Paris ;  Jules  Dapsens  of  Brussels ;  Professor 
Dr.  A.  Watzinger  of  Trondhjem,  Norway,  and  Christian  Leden 
of  Christiania ;  besides  numerous  others  from  Dresden,  Dussel- 
dorf,  Freiburg  i/Br.,  Hamburg,  Mlihlheim  a/E.,  etc.,  etc. 

In  addition  there  have  been  numerous  visitors  at  the  Haus 
from  all  parts  of  the  United  States,  including  instructors  in 
German  at  Adelphi,  Brown,  Bryn  Mawr,  College  of  the  City  of 
Xew  York,  Harvard,  Lafayette,  Normal  College,  Princeton, 
Vassar,  Wesleyan,  Williams,  Wisconsin,  Yale,  and  at  various 
high  schools. 

The  Haus  has  been  of  considerable  service  to  German 
visitors  in  supplying  them  with  letters  of  introduction  to 
various  institutions,  such  as  universi- 


ties, colleges,  observatories,  libraries,     LCtt^rjl  Of  9!^tt^^^W^t(0tT 

museums,    hospitals,    medical    insti-     

tutes,  engineering  societies,  etc.,  throughout  the  country,  and  in 
a  number  of  instances  the  itineraries  of  trips  undertaken  by 
German  scholars  and  students  were  prepared  here.  Letters  of 
introduction  have  also  been  supplied  to  Americans  going  abroad 
for  study  or  research. 

The  Haus  lends  itself  admirably  to  small  social  functions. 
During  the  year  under  consideration  Professor  and  Mrs.  Josef 
Schick  tendered  a  reception  to  their  friends  on 


December  19,  1911,  and  on  March  19, 1912,  the     ^OCt^l  if UtTCtfOtTjS 

Germanistic  Society  of  America  gave  a  recep-     

tion  to  Professor  Wilhelm  Paszkowski  of  the  University  of 
Berlin  and  Mrs.  Paszkowski.  On  May  8,  1912,  Count  Johann 
von  Bernstorff,  Imperial  German  Ambassador,  was  entertained 
at  an  informal  tea  by  the  Directors  of  the  Germanistic  Society 
of  America.  A  meeting  of  the  Germanic  Club  of  Columbia 
University  was  held  at  the  Haus  in  April. 

The  Haus  is  serving  as  the  headquarters  of  the  Germanistic 
Society  of  America.  The  Board  of  Directors  hold  their  meet- 
ings in  the  Haus  and  an  office  has  been 


provided  on  the  library  floor  for  the  curator     (0Ct1tl^ntj3tiC  ^OCf  tt]? 

of  the  Germanistic  Society  collection.    The     

various  tickets  and  other  notices  distributed  by  the  correspond- 
ing secretary  of  the  Society  are  also  sent  out  from  the  Haus, 

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Various  articles  on  the  Beiitsches  Haus  and  its  activities 
have  been  published  in  newspapers  and  magazines  here  and 
abroad.     Among  these  may  be  mentioned  an  illus- 


|&t^0)S)3  JlJOtlCCjS     trated  article  by   Dr.  Eeinhard   Thom,   Prussian 

exchange  teacher,  in  Die  Woclie^  Heft  8,  February 

24, 1912 ;  one  by  Dr.Wilhelm  Franke,  Prussian  exchange  teacher, 
in  the  Berliner  Illustrierte  Zeitung,  June  16,  1912 ;  an  illustrated 
article  in  the  North  German  Lloyd  Bulletin  for  June,  1912,  and 
one  entitled  "  Ein  Hort  deutscher  Wissenschaft  und  Kultur  "  in 
the  AbendUatt  der  New-YorJcer  Staats-Zeittmg,  August  16,  1912. 
Articles  and  notices  have  also  appeared  in  the  Rundschau  Zweier 
Welten,  April,  1911;  the  Columbia  Alumni  News,  May  18,  1911; 
The  Outlooh,  January  7,  1911;  Die  loic a  Reform ;  The  Evening 
Sun  ;  Neic  York  Evening  Post ;  Neiv  Yorlcer  Revue  ;  New-  YorJcer 
Staats-Zeitung ;  Yonngstmvn  Rundschau;  Heimat  und  Weltj 
(Danzig) ;  Leipziger  Neueste  Nachrichten ;  Tdgliche  Rundschau 
and  Vossische  Zeitung  (Berlin);  Frankfurter  Zeitung,  etc. 


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DIEECTOEY— DEUTSCHES  HAUS 

1st  Floor — Front        Foyer 

Rear  Kitchen,  Laundry,  Etc. 

2d  Floor — Front         Office  of  the  Director,  Dr.  Rudolf  Tombo,  Jr. 
Center       Bureau  of  Academic  Information 
Rear  Office  of  the  Secretary,  Miss  Alpers 

3d  Floor— Entire       Library  of  Contemporary  German  Literature 
Extension  Office  of  Dr.  Ernst  Richard 

4th  Floor — Entire      Apartments   of   the  Kaiser -Wilhelm  Pro- 
fessor 
5th  Floor — Front        Caretaker 

Rear         Quarters  of  the  Kaiser -Wilhelm  Professor 


The  Library  of  Contemporary  German  Literature  is  open  from 
9  A.M.  to  6  P.M.  daily,  excluding  Sunday,  and  on  Tuesday 
and  Friday  evenings 

The  Bureau  of  Academic  Information  is  open  every  week  day 
from  9  A.M.  to  5  P.M.,  with  the  exception  of  Saturday, 
when  it  is  open  from  9  A.M.  to  1  p.m. 


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EOEM  OF  BEQUEST 

To  the  Trustees  of  Columbia   University  in  the  City  of  New 
Yorlc 

I  hereby  give  and  bequeatli  tlie  sum  of  $  ,  to 

be    used   by   said  Trustees    for    the    maintenance    of    the 
JDeutsches  Haus  of  Columbia  University. 


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